Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 70
“Don’t be troubled about that, my child,” replied the latter.
What happens: not be, reply · To what, where: latter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 troubled | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 troubled | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 troubled | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 troubled | cop |
| 5 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 troubled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 troubled | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 troubled | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 troubled | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 latter | det |
| 15 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | about that; my child conj; troubled property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the latter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent latter=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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